Being both a motorsports fan and developer of cloud computing software, I was intrigued by Microsoft’s TV cloud computing advertisements for the Lotus F1 Team. I searched for articles about F1 and cloud computing and found Formula 1 is artificially restricting the use of cloud compute. “One of the biggest challenges during an F1 race…

In conjunction with rejoining Phoenix American Motorsports, a new P1Software IMSA software system is under development. The raw IMSA track-side data feeds are both richer and more reliable than the previous Grand-Am system, enabling us to create a more detailed and useful information system. The P1Software IMSA system will be initially used by Phoenix American…

P1Software is excited to rejoin Phoenix American Motorsports for the 2014 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge series. This will be our fourth season of providing custom real-time race intelligence software and track-side computer support. This year Phoenix campaigns a pair of awesome Ford Boss 302 Mustangs in the very competitive GS class. Come see us at…

This TEDX talk from McLaren Electronics’s Peter van Manen describes how a Formula 1 car sends hundreds of millions of data points to its garage for real-time analysis and feedback and how they used this detailed data approach to monitor children at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. So what we did is we took a data system…

Since you’re reading P1Software engineering, you’ll probably find this post interesting. It describes Red Bull Racing’s F1 team’s use of data. Some 100 gigabytes of data goes into winning a race Each car is fitted with around 100 sensors throughout the vehicle Data from the race site, wherever it is in the world, also arrives…

Background P1Lapchart is a web application that dynamically renders pretty, and sometimes interactive, lap chart data that plots each car’s race position (y axis) by lap (x axis). It consists of a client component that does the rendering (the view in MVC) and a back end web service component that fetches the raw data from a separate web…

This Engineering section was created to discuss the various software engineering aspects of the P1Software.com applications. P1Software was created to express my intersecting interests in both motorsports and software. If you’re like minded, then you’ve come to the right place.

P1Software proudly enters its third season working with Subaru Road Racing Team Phoenix in the very competitive 2012 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series. We continue to provide real-time on- and off-track race intelligence and computer support.